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To: Mr.Unique

This started when Monkey Werx did a talk on B-52s. He gave the talk:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/L9RbbLN1TZxC/

and stated that B-52s have a tail gun. Which they don’t as they were de-installed in the early 1990s. I considered that a pretty big miss.

n.b. - I originally posted that MonkeyWerx stated that there is a tail gunner in the B-52 (they don’t anymore) and they were quad .50 cal guns (that was incorrect - H models (which is what he was showing on the screen) had a 20-mm six-barrel rotary cannon, so on me).

Articles on B-52 Defensive Aerial Gunner are here:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/10237/the-u-s-air-forces-last-tail-gunner-has-retired

and here:

https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0112gunners/

You can see some of the obtuse comments about this in the thread. But no B-52 has tail guns installed any longer. No matter how much some people want to believe otherwise.


129 posted on 03/29/2021 9:37:18 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Fury

I’ve never seen a good description of where his ‘expertise’ comes from. As far as I can tell, he may have worked MX on Special Ops helicopters.


131 posted on 03/29/2021 10:23:18 AM PDT by Mr.Unique
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To: Fury
But no B-52 has tail guns installed any longer. No matter how much some people want to believe otherwise.

Correct. He also says that the TF-33 engines on the B-52H have water injection and that it's called a Stratofortress because it flies in the stratosphere. He also doesn't seem to know that SAC was deactivated in 1992.

He goes on to call T-6 Texans "T-37 Tweets" and T-38s "Law Darts."

He also doesn't recognize the location of Vance AFB.

He does use tacticool words like "exfil" though, so he's got that going for him.

132 posted on 03/29/2021 10:53:03 AM PDT by Mr.Unique
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